Tim Mayo holds an ALB, cum laude, from Harvard University and an MFA from The Bennington Writing Seminars. Among the many places his poems and reviews have appeared are Barrow Street,Narrative Magazine, Poetry International, Poet Lore, River Styx, Salamander, San Pedro River Review, Tar River Poetry, Web Del Sol Review of Books, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Verse Daily, and The Writer’s Almanac. His first full length collection, The Kingdom of Possibilities (Mayapple Press, 2009,) was a semi finalist for the 2009 Brittingham and Pollock Awards and a finalist for 2009 May Swenson Award.

His second volume of poems,Thesaurus of Separation, was published by Phoenicia Publishing (Montreal) in July of 2016. The collection was twice a finalist for the Quercus Review Poetry Book Award as well as twice a semi-finalist for the Word Works Press Washington Prize. It is also a finalist in the 2017 Eric Hoffer Book Award and a finalist for the 2017 Montaigne Medal.

A six time Pushcart Prize Nominee, and a two time finalist for the Paumanok Award, Mayo is also the recipient of two Vermont Writers Week Fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center. He lives in Brattleboro, VT, where he was a founding member and organizer of the Brattleboro Literary Festival author committee.